When I saw Soulwrest staff first, it was love at first sight. Both stats (and 3D art) are great and it has so much potential.

I cannot play that much I wanted to but I'm going to update the goals I reach as soon as possible.

DISCLAIMER: It can be a starter build, you can do up to T10 maps with minimal invest (6 socket Soulwrest + 4L Vis mortis), but as you want to get higher and higher you need to buy some good stuff, and regret some of the point on your tree.

I started to capture some gameplay, here are the first few. To be continued. :)

How phantasms work?
Phantasms are minions, that cast a physical dmg projectiles, so 'everything' that boost minion, spell, and projectile are boost them.How the hell you can get 20 phantasm?You can summon 10 phantasm with a single staff or with the gem: Summon phantasm on kill, if you combine these two things, you can have up to 20 phantasms.Why are you using skellies and how can fit them into this build?Skellies only worth if you can be able to get 6L Soulwrest. That mean, your phantasm only 5 (4) linked, and skellies are also just 5 (4linked), but if you think that you can have 11/36(vaal) skeletons as mages, and 20 phantasms, it's fine, and actually more dmg from this, than 6 (5) 'linked' phantasms.How the hell you create the phantasms?Staff creates phantasms on corps consumption. That means you can get corpses when you use offering skills (Flash offering is the best in this case), using bubonic trail (death walk), and some other skill (cremation, volatile dead). All of them are kind of worth to test, I might do it later, but I suggest to use bubonic, if you want to auto-summon the phantasm, but you need to know you loose 1 spectra with this.What about specters?Specters are good sidekick in your team, but the most important reason I use them, cuz I'm using Vis Mortis. Unholy Might grants 30% phys as extra chaos dmg on minions, cuz of phantasms dmg are phys, it's just a huge boost.Puppet master first at climbing phase, wut?That's kinda wacko, yeah, but you couldn't be able to spam SRS even if you have that much cast speed from offering, maybe in boss fights, but even without that speed you can melt everything with your minions. The damage, speed, minion dura it grants works better for me, feel smoother then before, when I didn't chose Puppet Master first for SRS.

Stats: Attack & Defense

PoB

Current setup: https://pastebin.com/fDnNnEKw - 2018.09.12. I restat'd into this build from baron build, so belt/rings/helm/amulet/gloves didn't change yet, I need some currency. Also I think I'm going to remove Spiritual Aid/Righteous Army/Redemption part, cuz I don't rly need that for sustain, and dmg. I'm probably going to take Sacrifice instead (for some extra def) of that and more life.

Suggested setup (with 6L Soulwreset): https://pastebin.com/XGqtewFT - Difference is the ascendancy change from Puppet Master to Bone Sculptor. You can also take flask nodes (Alchemist) instead of minor life modes, I do it yet.

As you can see Soulwrest has a kind of high lvl req (62), so you need to climb there somehow. I suggest zombies + srs. I used to use Baron, it grants huge dmg boost for srs, even if you are not using that much str item, but you can stack it at least up to 300, so it's +1 zombie, and dmg (+life) boost for your minions. Most important stat is the +2 minion level.
I rolled 5L staff with alts to +2 fire (I was lucky, also this kind of staffs are supercheap), so I can put srs into that with minion damage, splash - multistrike - melee phys dmg. I also used vaal clarity, on boss fights, with inc duration.
In the next part, I'm gonna make some PoB about climbing stages and suggested items.

Ok, so you can see the tree where you need to go, but how to play it.
There are 3-4 specters helping you to create corpses on the way, it smooth, also if you can get some Solar Guards from Shaper's realm, specters gonna carry you trough the map, when phantasms are side kicking and beat the sh*t out of bosses.
I'm using Leap slam + FA + fortify as mobility, speed won't be a problem, Spiritual command grants you a lot of extra speed, also you have offering that also boost up your speed. I'm using Silver + Quicksilver flask to boost my speed even more.

In boss fights (without skeletons), you just drop some desecrate with spell cascade (so you can drop even more bodies), summon your phantasms up to 20 with flesh offering, when they are up, rush on the boss, trigger elemental equilibrium with ball lightning, also projectile weakness, so minions will continuously knocking the boss back when they kill it.

It's true, I'm on low budget atm, cuz I couldn't be able to play that much, even my rings, belt, ammy still the same (shit), also i need to get some currency to buy grip of the council and better helm and I used all of my fusings on Vis Mortis, and trying to get 6L one. I successfully 6L the soulwrest so..

They're not expensive though, you can easily craft a decent one with move speed, life and +1 spectre by using a dense+pristine+bound fossil combo, see this thread for the whole explanation https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/9f9dhi/information_dense_pristine_bound_makes_crafting/

They're not expensive though, you can easily craft a decent one with move speed, life and +1 spectre by using a dense+pristine+bound fossil combo, see this thread for the whole explanation https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/9f9dhi/information_dense_pristine_bound_makes_crafting/

True, also I got some currency and updated my setup, I'm fine up to red elder right now. :)